Language: English
Level of audience: All

In a world characterized by crises, members of minorities, such as queer people, feel threatened and insecure although equal rights and acceptance of queer identities/diversity have been achieved in the European Union. At the same time, right-wing movements get stronger and proclaim ideas of family and gender of the Fifties. Hate-speech is wide spread. In many countries of the world, LGBT and gender-diverse persons are subjected to fines, arbitrara arrests, prosecucutions corporal punishments, impronsonments and up to the (possibly ) death penalty.

We see transactional analysis and our method of Script-Drama Work, a combination of TA and body therapy according to Diane Boyden-Pesso and Al Pesso, with the ground principle of Okayness and our ethical guidelines, as suitable tools for working with people. The basic OK attitude towards queer people can make a significant difference in making people feel welcome and included. We see the survival decisions made early on as a resource in difficult contexts on the one hand, and as a possible obstacle to the development of resilience and joie de vivre on the other.

In the workshop, we present the theory of the basic needs for space, food, protection, support and boundaries and use self-awareness exercises and case studies to show how we want to view and pass on the legacy of TA as a radical and humanistic method.